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Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Bronze Winner, 2024 Nonfiction Book Awards Where would we be without the knee? This down-to-earth joint connecting the thigh and the lower leg doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. Yet, as The Curious Human Knee reveals, it is crucial to countless facets of science, medicine, culture, and history—and even what makes us human. The science writer Han Yu provides an informative, surprising, and entertaining exploration of the human knee across time and place. She begins with our earliest ancestors, emphasizing that walking upright separates us from the apes and bipedal knees appeared long before big brains and sophisticated tools. Yu consi...
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This publication is the first to cover the entire field of teaching psychology, and includes teaching methods, advising, and curriculum planning as well as special problems in teaching laboratory and statistics courses. The articles selected provide thought-provoking reading for an international readership. Each of twelve subject-oriented sections contains a brief introduction, five articles, and suggested further readings for those wishing to pursue a particular topic in more detail.
This comprehensive five-volume set covers notable theories, people, social issues, life stages, the physiology and anatomy of the nervous system, and various mental illnesses or conditions --from publisher description.
V.1. A-Brain-Stem structures -- v.2. Career and personal testing-Emotion and st ress -- v.3. Emotion in primates-Learned helplessness -- v.4. Learning-Psychoan alysis -- v.5. Psychoanalytic psychology-Social psychological models -- v.6. So cial schemata-Z.